Re: "[swastika]Theres no mystique to the symbol.. its just a symbol."
This is incorrect.
The swastika, which is found in most native cultures, and which can be found as far back as pre-Vedic India, has always had a metaphysical symbology.
In Vedic times it represented "The Sun Wheel", and appears to be based on astronomical stellar configurations.
"The Sun Wheel", as found in traditional ancient and native cultures, represents "Rebirth", "Dawn", "The Life-giving Sun", and is properly represented as spinning clockwise (drawn backwards from the Nazi version).
Hitler's "backwards" swastika, der Heukenkreuz, was a "Sun Wheel" spinning "counter-clockwise"; thus representing a metaphysical rebirth of Evil and Darkness.
This ancient Teutonic "Crooked Cross" was first seen drawn as a sign of protest on the helmets of German soldiers returning from defeat during World War I, and was a prominent symbol in use by the various occultic "Aryan Supremacy' groups like The Thule Society and similar societies found in Germany prior to the 1930's.
The Nazi ideology's linkage to ancient Vedic Sanskrit Hindu metaphysics has been well documented.
Those of you who saw the Brad Pitt film "Seven Years in Tibet" probably are unaware that the two German explorer/soldier main characters were based on the real life SS Officers sent by Adolph Hitler to Tibet, to study the ancient scriptures and cultures in Lhasa in an attempt to scientifcally prove a direct German Aryan descent from the Tibetan Buddhists; a belief held firm by Adolph Hitler and most of his inner circle of hard-core Nazis, all of whom were deeply involved in studies and practices of the occultic metaphysical teachings of the Hindu Vedas and Tantric Buddism.
The science of modern Linguistics has proven a root language identical in Latvia, Finland, and Sanskrit India, yet has puzzled over the events which could have resulted in this finding.